I’ve used an Audio 2 with an external mixer before, worked ok. Another thing to consider is if you plan on sticking with 2 decks only or might want to branch out to 4 decks, as I’m led to believe the Z1 only seems to work with decks A and B for the time-being. Personally, I’m thinking of getting the Behringer CMD MM-1 and using that in conjunction with the Audio 2 for internal mixing instead of going with a Z1.
keeping track of four decks would be so confusing. I looked at the behringer you said you want to get it looks pretty cool. how would you use the A2 and the behringer at the same time?
^I’d use one of the Audio 2 outputs for monitoring and the other as the main output channel to an external mixer or even into a line-in on a hi-fi system, with the channels cues for the monitor channel being selected via the MM-1. Can understand with it being potentially confusing, though you could maybe have a loop going on a third channel while mixing the two main tracks as a sort of backing beat in a few cases, but you would really have to be on the ball with the monitoring and mixing to not stuff your mix up. Was watching John Digweed play here in Perth a couple of weekends ago and could see him from above having a third track looping while mixing two others, so it is doable in the right circumstances. The other thing as well if you decide to dabble with remix decks while mixing two decks as per normal, you’d have gain, high, mid and low volume controls for those as well for that extra degree of control, which is why I’m considering it if I do grab a F1 or two down the track to play with, though I’d probably get a second X1 Mk2 first.
yah I think I am going to need a diagram. so there would be a USB to your MM-1 and a USB to the A2
Yeah, can even run the Audio 2 off the MM-1 as it has 4 USB ports on the back.
my next purchase is going to be a midi to USB converter. id use channel 1 and 4 for my turntables(with traktor) and midi map channel 2 and 3. do you know anything about midi to USB converters. its just a signal so im guessing sound quality does not matter.
No, I don’t.
Might post a diagram up later on regarding the earlier setup I had in mind, been busy with other things.